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Zachary thought I loved him deeply.
Everyone around him thought I loved him deeply.
But they didn’t know that this was just an elaborate scam I had planned exclusively for Zachary Goodwin.
I was just trying to survive, to leave my suffocating home.
If illness hadn’t taken my father away,
I would have been a girl who grew up in wealth and love.
Although I lost my mother when I was very young, my stepmother had always been good
to me.
She would make me sweet cookies, tell me stories, and cover for me when scolded me for being lazy.
I thought I would grow up happily like this.
But on my 12th birthday,
My dad collapsed at home and was diagnosed with late–stage cancer.
After a year of treatment, he still left us.
my dad
I remember that day in the hospital, my dad held my hand and wiped away my tears:
“It’s all Dad’s fault, I couldn’t let Lily have her 12th birthday cake.”
“This year for your 13th birthday, Dad won’t be able to be with you. You won’t be mad at Dad, right?”
I was crying so hard I could barely breathe, I could only shake my head.
I didn’t want a birthday cake, I only wanted my dad.
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If I could, I would trade all my future birthday cakes for my dad to be healthy and safe.
But the heavens didn’t hear my prayers.
At that moment, his last words to me were:
“You must live on well, Lily.”
Later, my dad passed away.
My stepmother tried to do business with the inheritance my dad left, but ended up being scammed out of everything.
I became the biggest burden.
My grandfather didn’t want me.
My maternal grandparents had long passed away.
The only person I could call family was my stepmother, who no longer loved me.
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